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United Launch Alliance · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A Vulcan Centaur lifts off from Cape Canaveral.
Photo by U.S. Space Force, Airman 1st Class Collin Wesson. Public domain. Source
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Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-17)

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What this is

United Launch Alliance is launching a rocket called Vulcan VC6L from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA. It is for Amazon . is a lap close to the planet. Satellites there can take pictures, help phones, or study the air.

United Launch Alliance is flying a Vulcan VC6L from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA. Mission: Amazon (LV-17). Amazon , formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon. This constellation is planned to be composed of 3,276 satellites. The satellites are projected to be placed in 98 orbital planes in three orbital layers, one at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km altitude. 45 satellites will be carried on each Vulcan launch. Planned orbit: . Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.

From here

Too far to see

You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 1,577 miles east. The broadcast is the view.

That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway.

Public places

Viewing spots

Places run by a park or a visitor center near this site. A listing is not a promise you can see the rocket from there.

Space jobs corner

Who is on this flight

Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.

Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.

Ask about this launch

Only what the listing says

Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.

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So the slip still finds you

A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.